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Morning
"Daddy! Daddy! Wake up!" Chandler reluctantly up his eyes when he felt someone poking him. He glanced across and saw Erica by his side.
"Hey, honey…are you okay?" He asked sleepily, remembering that she had been ill.
"Uh-huh…" She answered but then point past him to Jack, who was struggling to get up on the bed. "Jacky, can't get up!"
Chandler laughed slightly, before lifting his three-year-old son up onto the bed and lying back against the pillow.
"Daddy!" They both jumped on him, neither of them was tired.
"Aw, come on guys…" He moaned, opening his eyes again. "Its still night time!"
"No it's not!" Jack protested.
"Yes, it is…" Chandler answered. "The alarm hasn't gone off yet…"
Erica frowned slightly. "Well, when will it go off?"
"When its time to get up…"
"When will that be!"
"When the alarm goes off…"
"Daddy!"
"Oh come on, a few more minutes of sleep…" He begged, reaching out and pulling them both towards him and under the covers.
They both giggled and tried to escape from his hold but he would allow them to get away so they just snuggled up against him. Before Chandler had chance to drift back to sleep, the alarm's annoying beep filled the room, causing him to groan.
"Yay!" Erica cheered, as Jack crawled towards the bedside table and pushed every button on the alarm, trying to find the right one.
"Time to get up, Daddy!" Jack grinned at him.
"Yeah, okay…" He sighed in defeat and sat up. "You guys want to watch some cartoons in here?"
"Yeah!" They both nodded straight away. Erica quickly jumped up and moved to sit on Chandler's lap, while he sat up against the headboard and reached for the remote that was on the side.
He kissed the top of her head and moved an arm around Jack and pulled him towards him, allowing leaning up against him but neither of them looked up, both engrossed in the TV.
After 10 minutes of the cartoon, he could feel his eyes slowly drop down. He didn't get much sleep during the night; he spent most of the time, Erica. Even though, it was probably just a cold and that she seemed fine this morning, he would have hated for her to had gotten really ill and needed him and for him to be asleep. He hated it whenever one of them was sick, he wouldn't know what to do if something happen to either of them.
His eyes snapped open then there was a loud knock at the door.
"I'll get it!" Erica yelled and ran towards the door.
"Erica!" Chandler called after.
"Don't!" Jack added. "It could be an evil man!"
Chandler threw the covers off his legs but before he had chance to stand up, Jack grabbed his arm.
"Will you beat them up if they're an evil man?" He asked his Dad.
Chandler laughed slightly. "It won't be an evil man…"
"DAD!" Erica shouted from the door.
"Come on, Jacky…" Chandler scooped him up in his arms and headed out the room.
"I asked if he was an Evil Man and he said no…" Erica told her Dad and went to close the door. "But I don't think we should let him in…"
Chandler laughed. "Hey, its okay…. that's you Uncle Joey…"
"Uncle Joey?" She frowned and looked at him. "But you live far away!"
"Well, I thought I'd come and see you guys…" Joey smiled down at the little girl.
"Oh…" She continued to look at him. "Did you bring presents?"
"Erica!" Chandler sighed.
"Sorry…" She looked down at her feet.
"It's okay…" Joey laughed.
"Come on in, Joe…" Chandler told him, stepped closer to pull the door open wider.
"Thanks…" He stepped inside. "I hope you don't mind me coming…. Mon gave me the address…"
"Of course not…" Chandler assured him. "You're just in time for breakfast…"
Joey grinned. "Alright!"
"Some things don't change…Come and sit down."
Joey followed them into a smallish living room, which had a couch, an armchair, a TV with a DVD a video players and a stereo system. There were a few of the twins toys scattered on the floor but it wasn't un-tidy.
"How about you three watch some more cartoons while I fix breakfast…" Chandler suggested, coming to place Jack on the couch next to Joey.
"No!" He held onto his Dad tighter and buried his face in his shoulder.
"Uh, he's a little shy…" Chandler explained when he saw Joey looking at them.
"Don't worry, Jack…" Erica jumped down next to Joey. "He's not an evil man!"
"Really?" Jack asked Chandler quietly.
"No, buddy…he isn't…" Chandler assured him.
"Hey, Jack…look I got you a present…" Joey stated, searching his bag and pulled out a small t-shirt with 'The Knicks' on the front.
"Oh, look at that Jacky…" Chandler exclaimed, moving closer so he could take it off Joey. "What do you say?"
"Thank you…" He grinned clutching the t-shirt.
"You're welcome…" Joey returned to smile. "Maybe me and your Dad could take you to watch them play…"
Jack's eyes widen, excited and looked at his Dad. "Can we?"
"I'm sure we can…" He smiled.
"I wanna come!" Erica piped up.
"Of course…" Joey nodded and pulled out another t-shirt and handed it to her.
"Dad! Look!" She held it up.
"Oh yeah, that's great!" Chandler replied, placing Jack down on the couch. "Do I get one?"
"Uh…uh…well…um…" Joey stuttered, glancing down into his bag.
"Joe, relax…I was joking…" Chandler told him. "Now what do you guys what for breakfast!"
"Pizza!" Jack shouted.
"Uh….no…." Chandler answered.
"Um…Mac and Cheese?" Erica suggested.
"Try again…"
"Candy?"
"No…guys we go through this every morning…" Chandler sighed. "How about pancakes?"
"With chocolate chips?"
"Sure…"
"Okay!" They both agreed before flicking on the TV.
Joey followed Chandler out to the kitchen, determined to find out what was going on.
"They're great kids…" He stated.
"Yeah, they are…" Chandler smiled proudly.
"I wish I was around more…" Joey added. "I guess I missed out on a lot of stuff…"
"I guess…" Chandler replied, knowing where this was heading.
"Chandler, what happened?" He sighed.
"Joe, we told you last night, it just wasn't working out…"
"But you guys were so in love!"
"No we weren't…not at the end."
"I don't believe that!" He answered.
"Maybe we were never really in love…"
"What?" Joey stared at him. "Of course you were!"
"None of this was meant to happen…that night in London…it was meant to be that…just one night, in a Romanic feign city…"
"But then you fell in love!" Joey insisted. "And don't deny it!"
"No, I'm not going to…" Chandler looked at him. "I think we really did love each other back then…"
"You can't just fall out of love!"
"Me and Mon were meant to be just friends…. And I think… I think if it wasn't for you guys were would have broken up a long time ago…"
"What!"
"You really think everything would have stayed the same if we broke up 7 years ago?" Chandler asked. "You think we would have all managed to get past it all and stay friends….I know Ross would have wanted to kill me…"
"So, you're saying that you stayed together, got married, had two kids together just because you didn't want to upset us!" Joey questioned. "No! I might not be the brightest crayon in the box but I know you're both not crazy enough to do that!"
"You don't understand…"
"No, I don't! But that's because I saw how happy you two were together…"
"We were happy….but that was when everyone was around us…" Chandler told. "After we moved, things changed."
"It was your idea to leave!"
"I know that but we thought it would be okay…"
"This makes no sense!"
Chandler shrugged slightly. "When it was just the two of us….we realised that the love with share is not as strong as we thought….we were not in love….we just got friendship love, mixed up with romantic love…."
Joey was silent for a moment, thinking about what he just said, while Chandler consecrated on making the breakfast.
"Nope, still not buying it!" Joey stated, causing Chandler in groan in frustration.
"God, you're having a harder time accepting this then we did!"
"That's because I know the truth!"
Chandler rolled his eyes and called the twins to tell them breakfast was ready.
"Can we just drop this now…" Chandler whispered to him, gesturing to the twins.
Joey reluctantly nodded in agreement, sitting at the table as Chandler placed the pancakes down.
"So..uh…what you doing tonight?" Joey asked. "Maybe you, me and Ross could go and get a drink or something…"
"Sorry, can't…" Chandler replied. "Mon has a date…I got to look after these two."
"She has a date?" Joey looked surprised.
"Yeah, some guy from work…." Chandler nodded.
Things slowly started to make sense….well in Joey's head anyway…
XxXxX
"Hey, guys…Sorry, I'm late…" Joey said as he approached Ross, Phoebe and Rachel. They had all agreed to meet at Central Perk to discuss the best plan to get Monica and Chandler back together.
"No worry, we just got here…" Rachel told him. "Did you speak to Chandler?"
"Yeah…" He nodded. "He's still insisting that nothing really happened, they were just not working…"
Ross sighed. "Well maybe that's the truth…I mean, people do drift apart."
"Yeah but not Monica and Chandler!" Phoebe claimed.
"Yeah and Chandler was saying stuff like they were never really in love….they got being in love mixed up with loving a friend or something…" Joey added. "And we all saw them…we all knew that wasn't true…"
"Alright, did you find out anymore?"
"Yeah…Mon….she has a date tonight…"
"What!"
"Some guy from work…" Joey told them. "When Chandler left the room to get changed, I asked the twins about him…apparently his name is Geoffrey and Mon has been seeing him for a while…"
"Geoffrey?" Ross repeated. "As in the same guy from a few years ago?"
"I dunno…" Joey shrugged. "Maybe…"
"Wait…who is he?" Rachel asked.
"Remember when Mon started to work at Javu and Chandler was in Tulsa?" Ross started and the guys nodded. "Well, Monica told Chandler that this guy Geoffrey was the funniest guy she had met…"
"I know I remember him!" Phoebe stated.
"So…so what do you think this means?" Rachel questioned.
"I dunno…" Ross sighed. "But I don't like it."
"What about Chandler?" Phoebe asked. "What about this Molly person?"
Joey shrugged. "I asked that too and Erica said she was asleep in the living room but no one was there…. Probably their imaginary friend or something…"
"Okay, so what's next?"
No answered….
TBC
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